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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -Cicero

A Red Carpet for Radical Islamists at the White House

This would be startling news to many, accept those that would be startled will never find out, and those of us who have found out, simply are not surprised. But this is another clear example that Obama is a radical with an agenda and so, he associates himself with radicals with agendas. Specifically he is a radical Marxist/Islamistthe evidence shows. - W.E.

A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism
(IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of
visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration
officials.Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations.The IPT made the discovery combing through millions of White House
visitor log entries. IPT compared the visitors' names with lists of
known radical Islamists. Among the visitors were officials representing
groups which have:

Been designated by the Department of Justice as unindicted
co-conspirators in terrorist trials; Extolled Islamic terrorist groups
including Hamas and Hizballah;

Obstructed terrorist investigations by instructing their followers not to cooperate with law enforcement;

Repeatedly claimed that many of the Islamic terrorists convicted
since 9-11 were framed by the U.S government as part of an anti-Muslim
profiling campaign.

Individuals from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) visited the White House at least 20 times starting in 2009. In 2008, CAIR was listed
as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist money
laundering case in U.S. history – the trial of the Holy Land Foundation
in which five HLF officials were convicted of funneling money to Hamas.U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis later ruled
that, "The Government has produced ample evidence to establish the
association" of CAIR to Hamas, upholding their designations as
unindicted co-conspirators. In 2008, the FBI formally ended all contact with CAIR because of its ties to Hamas.In January 2004, Hussam Ayloush,
executive director of CAIR's Los Angeles office, publicly defended
Palestinian terror attacks in comments before Muslim students at the
University of California – Los Angeles, saying that terrorists were
exercising their "legitimate right" to defend themselves against Israeli occupation.Ayloush, who was a delegate
to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., casts
the United States as controlled by Israeli interests. At a 2008 CAIR
banquet in San Diego, he imagined "an America that respects and
humanizes religion. It's an America that is free to act on its values
and not on the interests of any foreign lobby." In 2004, he said that
the war on terror had become a "war on Muslims." Ayloush attended at
least two White House meetings.The logs show Ayloush met with Paul Monteiro,
associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement on
July 8, 2011 and Amanda Brown, assistant to the White House director of
political affairs Patrick Gaspard, on June 6, 2009.According to reliable sources, Monteiro was White House liaison for
secret contacts with CAIR, especially with Ayloush. IPT has learned that
the White House logs curiously have omitted Ayloush's three meetings
with two other senior White House officials.Louay Safi,
formerly executive director of the Islamic Society of North America,
visited the White House twice – meeting in intimate settings with Paul
Monteiro on June 29, 2011 and July 8, 2011.Law enforcement first noticed Safi in 1995 when his voice was
captured in an FBI wiretap of now-convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad
leader Sami Al-Arian. At the time of his conversation with Al-Arian,
Safi served as executive director of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, an organization listed in law-enforcement and in internal Muslim Brotherhood documents as one of the movement's top front groups in North America.Safi also wrote for the Middle East Affairs Journal, produced by the
United Association for Studies and Research (UASR). That group was
established by Hamas deputy political leader Mousa Abu Marzook and part
of the Hamas-support network called the "Palestine Committee."Safi has repeatedly expressed
understanding for the underlying causes that provoke terrorism:
"Terrorism cannot be fought by…ignoring its root causes. The first
step…is to examine the conditions that give rise to the anger,
frustration, and desperation that fuel all terrorist acts." He also called Palestinian terrorists "freedom" fighters.Esam Omeish, former head of the Muslim Brotherhood-created Muslim American Society, visited the White House three times.In 2000, Omeish personally hired the late terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to be the imam of Falls Church, VA, Dar al-Hijrah mosque. According to IPT analysis, more terrorists have been linked to Dar al-Hijrah since 9/11 than to any other mosque in America.Omeish publicly mourned the Israeli airstrike that killed Hamas
founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin at an April 10, 2004, MAS conference.According to video captured by IPT, Omeish went a step further at the December 22, 2000, Jerusalem Day rally
in Washington's Lafayette Park, praising Palestinian terror groups,
saying they had learned "the jihad way" to "liberate" Palestine.In a sermon at Dar al-Hijrah in 2009, Omeish called for "an American
Islamic movement that transforms our status, that impacts our society,
and that brings forth the change that we want to see."Last month, Omeish attended a reception for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during Morsi's United Nations visit. Morsi is a longtime
Egyptian Brotherhood leader. Omeish posted a picture of the event on his
Facebook page and noted: "His Excellency provided great insights and we
share important perspectives."Mohamed Elibiary,
appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council in October 2010,
spoke at a December 2004 seminar in honor of Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, titled: "A Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary."Elibiary condemned the convictions of the defendants in the Hamas money-laundering trial as a "loss for America" and dismissed the prosecution as "a political trial trying to achieve a government policy." He also opposed
the targeting of American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, saying
it wouldn't be "worth the ramifications of having to chase his ghost as a
martyr for the next half century."Interestingly, the Obama administration's enthusiastic support for
gay rights did not prevent it from inviting Islamists who support laws
overseas giving gays the death penalty.In a June 21, 2001 article in The San Francisco Chronicle, Muzammil Siddiqi,
the former head of Islamic Society of North America, said he "supported
laws in countries where homosexuality is punishable by death." Siddiqi
met with Monteiro on June 8, 2010.Despite the President's public proclamations that he is standing
strong against terrorism, the White House logs demonstrate that he has
legitimized the very same groups that espouse radical Islamic terrorism.MPAC's Influence on PolicyThe Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has secured the closest
working relationship with the Obama White House despite a record of anti-Semitism, whitewashing the terrorist threat and hostility toward law enforcement. Fifteen MPAC officials have been welcomed by the White House. Executive Director Salam al-Marayati enjoyed at least six White House visits between September 2009 and July 2011, mostly involving meetings with Monteiro. Alejandro Beutel, who was MPAC's government liaison until July 2012, had 10 White House visits between July 2010 and May 2012.MPAC's Washington director Haris Tarin
made 24 trips to the White House between December 2009 and March 2012.
Those meetings often were intimate in nature, involving a handful of
people at most.Edina Lekovic,
an MPAC spokeswoman, visited the White House twice in July 2010. As a
UCLA student, Lekovic served as an editor of a Muslim magazine called
Al-Talib, which in 1999 ran an editorial
calling Osama bin Laden "a great mujahid" and saying when bin Laden is
called a terrorist, "we should defend our brother and refer to him as a
freedom fighter, someone who has forsaken wealth and power to fight in
Allah's cause and speak out against oppressors. We take these stances
only to please Allah." That issue identified Lekovic as a managing
editor.Like CAIR, MPAC also has pushed that "war on Islam" message. MPAC defended Hizballah's 1983 attack on a U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon which killed 241 Americans and questioned U.S.-terror designations for Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.But the White House turned to MPAC officials as it prepared two papers on combatting what it calls violent extremism in America.On July 18, 2011, White House Senior Director for Global Engagement
QuintanWiktorowicz hosted four MPAC officials for a private meeting. Two
weeks later, the White House issued "Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States,"
a counter-terrorism initiative which made no mention of radical Islam
or jihad waged by its followers. Rather, it named only al-Qaida as the
enemy and included a vow to counter al-Qaida's narrative that America is
at war with Islam.That focus fits neatly with MPAC's agenda. It has lobbied for years
to strip references to Islam from national security dialogue, even
though terrorists from al-Qaida to Hamas use Quranic doctrine to justify
their bloody campaigns.And it marks the culmination of a dream described
by MPAC founder Salam al-Marayati in a 2005 speech: "Counter-terrorism
and counter-violence should be defined by us," he said. "We should
define how an effective counter-terrorism policy should be pursued in
this country. So, number one, we reject any effort, notion, suggestion
that Muslims should start spying on one another … That is why we are
saying have them [law enforcement] come in community forums, in
open-dialogues, so they come through the front door and you prevent them
having to come from the back door."Wiktorowicz, a member of President Obama's National Security Council who authored
a 2005 ebook on radical Islam, was a receptive host for MPAC government
and policy analyst Alejandro Beutel, Washington, D.C. office director
Haris Tarin, policy analyst Hoda Elshishtawy and Shammas Malik, an MPAC
intern, White House logs show.MPAC didn't tout the July 18 meeting publicly but quickly praised the
White House initiative. It "echoes MPAC's long-standing position of
emphasizing community-based solutions in addressing violent extremism,"
the organization said in an August 3, 2011 news release.Days before the meeting, President Obama called Tarin personally to commend his work with the Muslim American community and the nation.MPAC repaid the courtesy a month later by issuing a paper
blasting the American opposition to a Palestinian scheme to get United
Nations recognition of statehood without pursuing it through peace
talks.The MPAC report questions the Obama administration's integrity by
suggesting that the "U.S. is so out of step with global public opinion"
on this issue because it is unduly influenced by "domestic political
consequences" and campaign concerns, an allusion to the perceived
political power of the pro-Israel lobby in the U.S., which MPAC often
invokes.Despite MPAC's strident public opposition to U.S. policy, Wiktorowicz
again hosted Beutel, Tarin, and Elshishtawy on November 4, 2011 – just a
month before a follow-up counter-terrorism document was released.Access Didn't Moderate MPACIn March 2011, Beutel took to Press TV,
an English-language broadcast outlet controlled by the Iranian
government, to criticize congressional hearings on radicalization within
the Muslim American community:

It spoke to a lot of the feelings that I think many
Muslim Americans have with respect to their position here in America
post-9/11. We are loyal citizens to this nation and we are trying to do
everything we can to keep it safe and secure. And yet even when we're
doing the right things and in many cases, laying our lives down on the
line for our nation, we still get stigmatized sometimes.

Most recently, Beutel co-authored an op-ed
with Tarin, in which the two MPAC officials criticized NYPD
surveillance of Muslim student groups across the Northeast: "The NYPD's
surveillance of an entire community based on their faith -- with no
evidence of criminal activity -- is a blow [to] democracy and an
ineffective and counterproductive offense to its mandate to 'protect and
serve.'"In September 2010, Beutel criticized
FBI raids in Chicago and Minneapolis targeting supporters of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), both U.S.-designated
terrorist organizations. Beutel argued that "[t]he FBI cannot continue
to tell the American people that harassing anti-war activists falls
under the rubric of counterterrorism and a fight against al-Qaeda … They
have absolutely nothing to do with each other. The FBI is undermining
the trust that has been built between communities and law enforcement."Other Islamists Who Enjoyed AccessWhite House logs show Islamists visiting the White House who may have
lower profiles, but who also defended terrorists and terrorist groups,
and repeatedly castigated law enforcement, especially in counter-terror
sting operations. Among them:

Farhana Khera–
executive director of Muslim Advocates and the National Association of
Muslim Lawyers (NAML). She casts FBI counter-terror stings as
"entrapment." Following arrests in late 2010, she toldUSA Today,
"But for the government's role in these cases the suspects may have
been left with their own bravado. Law enforcement resources need to be
focused on actual threats." Khera also has compromised FBI operations
and coached mosque personnel on how to evade FBI surveillance. "In one
case, the FBI even wanted to build a gym to attract young Muslims to
work out and 'discuss jihad," Khera once wrote.
In July 2010 Khera told delegates at an Islamic Society of North
American convention: "Sometimes [Muslim] community members don't even
think of themselves as a[n] [FBI] source. They might just think [to]
themselves, 'Well, I have a good relationship with the head of the FBI
office. He comes by my office from time to time and we have tea, or we
go to lunch, and he just talks to me about the community.' But what may
seem like an innocuous set of conversations in the FBI's mind they may
be thinking of you as an informant, as a source. And the repercussions
and the harm that that can cause can be pretty serious." Khera shows up
three times in the White House visitor logs, most recently in August
2011.

Hisham al-Talib–A founder and current VP of Finance
for Herndon, VA-based, International Institute of Islamic Thought
(IIIT), an organization the FBI believes has housed key Muslim
Brotherhood leaders in the United States since the late 1980s. Al-Talib
was among seven people to meet March 30, 2012 with Joshua DuBois, White House executive director of the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. A 1987 FBI investigative report,
obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, cited a source whose
name was redacted but who has private communication with IIIT leaders.
Their conversations show the IIIT leaders "…are implementing Phase I of
the overall six phase IKWAN [Brotherhood] plan to institute the Islamic
Revolution in the United States." The source said that IIIT leaders were
working "to peacefully get inside the United States Government and also
American universities" ultimately to help overthrow non-Islamic
governments. Just four years later, the IIIT acknowledged funding WISE, a
Tampa think-tank that housed four members of the Palestinian Islamic
Jihad's governing board (Sami al-Arian, Ramadan Shallah, Basheer Nafi
and Mazen al-Najjar). WISE had a cooperative agreement to work with
University of South Florida faculty. In a November 1992 letter
to al-Arian, IIIT President Taha Jaber al-Awani explained the intimate
relationship between the Tampa and Virginia operations. "And I would
like to affirm these feelings to you directly on my behalf and on the
behalf of all my brothers [naming IIIT officials including al-Talib] …
"that when we make a commitment to you or try to offer, we do it for you
as a group, regardless of the party or façade you use the donation for …
[W]e consider you as a group … a part of us and an extension of us.
Also, we are part of you and an extension of you," al-Awani wrote.
"[O]ur relationship, in addition to being a brotherhood of faith and
Islam, is an ideological and cultural concordance with mutual
objectives." The letter named the IIIT officials who shared this view,
including al-Talib.

Imam Talib El-Hajj Abdur Rashid–religious
and spiritual leader of Harlem's Mosque of the Islamic Brotherhood.
Rashid rationalized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's stance on
destroying Israel, saying
it merely is a "sentiment born of the legitimate anger, frustration,
and bitterness that is felt in many [parts of the Muslim World" because
of Israel's "ongoing injustice toward the Palestinian people." He also
serves on the National Committee to Free Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin.
Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown, was convicted of killing
a Georgia police officer in 2002.White House logs place Rashid in two
meetings during 2010 including a July 13 event with President Obama.

Hatem Abudayyeh
– executive director of the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network,
founded by Rashid Khalidi, a friend of President Obama. Abudayyeh has
been under criminal investigation at least since September 2010, when
FBI agents raided his home and office in connection with a
terror-support probe. In a 2006 interview,
Abudayyeh blasted Israel's "military killing machine" after Israel
retaliated for a cross-border Hizballah attack that killed five people
and led to the kidnapping of two soldiers. "The U.S. and Israel will
continue to describe Hamas, Hezbollah and the other Palestinian and
Lebanese resistance organizations as 'terrorists,'" he said,"but the
real terrorists are the governments and military forces of the U.S. and
Israel." He visited the White House in April 2010.

Outreach to minority communities can foster a feeling of
inclusiveness. However, President Obama opening the White House to
radical Islamists compromises American security in at least two ways.
First, it legitimizes groups and individuals whose track records beg
skepticism and scrutiny. Second, White House visitor logs show that top
U.S. policy-makers are soliciting and receiving advice from people who,
at best, view the war on terrorism as an unchecked war on Muslims. These
persons' perspectives and preferred policies handcuff law enforcement
and weaken our resolve when it comes to confronting terrorism.